A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

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Philo

Historical Figure
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A Hellenistic Jewish philosopher (c. 20 BCE–50 CE) who synthesized Jewish scripture with Greek philosophy, notably through allegorical interpretation of the Torah.

Detailed Definition
Philo of Alexandria (c.20 BCE–50 CE) sought harmony between Judaism and philosophy. In poetry, he symbolises synthesis—faith and reason intertwined—and the intellectual quest to reconcile revelation with rational truth.
Example
Example in poetry:
Philo: Philo’s synthesis of Greek philosophy and Jewish scripture inspires poets to bridge faith and reason: “He read the Torah with Plato’s eye— / and found the Word was not just ‘I am.’””; Poets borrow his allegorical method: “The sea was not a flood, but fear— / the ark, the soul that dared to bear.”; His exegetical depth becomes poetic technique: “He did not take the text as stone, / but as the breath, the sigh, the tone.”; Philo teaches poets that meaning is layered: “The law was not a list, but light— / a mirror held to inner sight.”; A poet might write, “He saw the text not as command, / but as the soul’s own trembling hand.”; His legacy: “He did not choose between the two— / he wove the Word, and made it true.”
Additional Notes
Philo of Alexandria fused Jewish theology with Platonic philosophy, creating a symbolic exegesis that influenced early Christian allegorical poetry; his use of logos and mystical interpretation provided a model for poets like Dante and John of the Cross who sought to reconcile faith with philosophical abstraction.
Also Known As
Philo of Alexandria
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